Alternatively, the use of the initial inclusion cluster size and LEFM shows a reasonable correlation in terms of the effective stress intensity range (ΔKeff) and life, suggesting that confident safe life prediction requires the quantification of behaviour in terms of crack development and growth from the defects.
A previous study that undertook behavioural observations on 10 fish over 20 consecutive 1 min periods found that a 3 min observation period was sufficient to obtain a representative quantification of behaviour for P. amboinensis (Mero and McCormick unpublished data; also see [38]).
Overall, existing techniques used on deterministic systems tend to be somewhat ad hoc, depending on the intuition of the investigator, and do not allow the convenient quantification of behaviour that our methodology provides.
This study outlines the first Focused Ion Beam (FIB) milling and Digital Image Correlation (DIC) based technique capable of performing precise, reliable and rapid quantification of this behaviour.
(B ) Quantification of motor behaviour at microtubule intersections.
Highlighted article: The quantification of cellular behaviour in real time provides new insights into interneuron migration and inner plexiform layer formation during the lamination of the zebrafish retina.
This approach allows for the identification of certain regulatory features of the pathway and for the quantification of the behaviour of the reaction blocks towards to changes in the concentration of the fixed metabolite.
Fourth, in Drosophila melanogaster, transgenic lines have been established that express fluorescent markers in sperm, e.g. green or red fluorescent proteins, which enables the visualisation of competing ejaculate in situ and the quantification of sperm behaviour (e.g. [ 28- 31]).
The r-DFAn procedure allows for robust and automated quantification of mono-fractal behaviour.
A wealth of research into human tactile stimulus perception may be extended to the quantification of laboratory animal behaviour.
In 'Automated quantification of the schooling behaviour of sticklebacks', Ardekani et al. describe a video analysis technique for automatically localizing a fish in a tank in the presence of a moving experimental apparatus containing artificial fish.
